The Growing Field of Digital Psychiatry: Current Evidence and the Future of Apps, Social Media, Chatbots, and Virtual Reality

As the COVID-19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental health technologies – such as smartphone apps, virtual reality, chatbots, and social media – have also gained attention. These digital health technologies offer the potential of accessible and scalable interventions that can augment traditional care. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive update on the overall field of digital psychiatry, covering three areas.

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Touros et al.

John Torous, Sandra Bucci, Imogen H. Bell, Lars V. Kessing, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Pauline Whelan, Andre F. Carvalho, Matcheri Keshavan, Jake Linardon & Joseph Firth. Published in World Psychiatry, October 2021

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